Third person past tense is the most common form in fiction although limited omniscient is a close contender.
Fiction is like any other prose writing. It's written in paragraphs. Other than that, you can include anything you want -- dialogue, thoughts, flashbacks -- whatever you can invent.
Rolf Tarot has written: 'Narratio viva' -- subject(s): Discourse analysis, Narrative, Fiction, History and criticism, Narrative Discourse analysis, Theory
The novel is an example of a work of fiction.
Cristopher Nash has written: 'World-games' -- subject(s): Fiction, History and criticism, Realism in literature 'Narrative in Culture' 'World postmodern fiction' -- subject(s): Fiction, History and criticism, Postmodernism (Literature)
D. A. Miller has written: 'Narrative and its discontents' -- subject(s): Technique, Closure (Rhetoric), Narration (Rhetoric), Fiction
Yes, "Jack and the Beanstalk" is typically written in the third person. This narrative perspective is commonly used in fairy tales to tell the story from an outside, objective viewpoint.
Narrative nonfiction, or creative nonfiction, is a literary work that tells a true story, but does so with the use of literary devices, rather than simply reporting the facts. Memoirs are typically examples of narrative nonfiction, as opposed to autobiographies, which are not usually written in literary style.
Stephen Hamilton Buccleugh has written: 'The dialogics of narratives: a study of narrative voice and description in the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen'
A reflective narrative is a piece of writing that describes an experience. The writing is usually about a personal experience written completely from memory.
Ulrich Winter has written: 'Der Roman im Zeichen seiner Selbst' -- subject(s): Discourse analysis, Narrative, History and criticism, Narrative Discourse analysis, Semiotics and literature, Spanish fiction
Phyllis Peres has written: 'Transculturation and resistance in Lusophone African narrative' -- subject(s): History and criticism, African fiction (Portuguese)
Hsiao-Hung Lee has written: 'Possibilities of hidden things' -- subject(s): Autobiographical fiction, English, English Autobiographical fiction, English fiction, First person narrative, History, History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Self in literature
Dirk Frank has written: 'Popliteratur' 'Pop- Literatur.' 'Narrative Gedankenspiele' -- subject(s): Experimental Literature, Fiction, History and criticism, Technique